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Unit 4 Vocabulary Slideshow
  • Mrs. Stedmans Class

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Agriculture
  • Agriculture means farming fruits vegetables and
    other crops
  • by Danielle Chisling

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Jeremy Previte
  • Advantage Any condition, circumstance,
    opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to
    success, or to any desired end benefit.

Not any more
Men we have the advantage
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Characteristic
  • Characteristic means a distinguishing feature or
    quality An example of a characteristic of Bob is
    that he is kind.

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Charles F. Kettering
  • Charles Kettering invented the first electric
    cash register, he designed electrical equipment
    for automobiles in Dayton, and he developed the
    first electric automobile starter.
  • By Jordan Miller

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Common Good
  • By thinking not only of oneself but of all the
    people in an entire community (think of others
    before yourself

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dam
  • A dam is a barrier that impounds water or under
    ground streams. Dams generally serve the primary
    purpose of retaining water, while other
    structures such as flood gates or levees, (also
    known as dikes) are used to manage or prevent the
    water flow in specific land regions.

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Dictionary
  • A dictionary is a source that helps you to know
    what a word means.
  • By Nicole Kuczek

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Voting
  • Voting is when you take the opinions of people
    and see which part of the disagreement wins. The
    side of the disagreement that has the most votes
    wins. They do this to chose the president.

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Disadvantage
  • A disadvantage is something negative, the
    opposite of an advantage. Lets say that you want
    to go to a friends birthday party, but the other
    one invited you too, if you went to one, the
    advantage is that that friend could be happy, a
    disadvantage is that the other friend would be
    mad.

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Election
  • An election is a decision-making process by which
    a population chooses an individual to hold formal
    office.

Aaron W
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Encyclopedia
  • A book that contains articles(important people,
    places, or things in alphabetical order.
  • By Nicole Kuczek

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Fertilizer by Tearra
  • Fertilizers are chemicals compounds applied to
    promote plant and fruit growth. Fertilizers are
    usually applied either through the soil ( for up
    take by plant roots) or, by foliar feeding( for
    up take through leaves.

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Forestry
  • The art of cultivating, maintaining, and
    developing of forests.
  • By Farrah Verni

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Garrett Morgan
  • He is credited as the first African-American in
    Cleveland to own an automobile.
  • He invented a two way traffic after a serious
    accident
  • He invinted a safety hood an early form of gas
    mask.

Aaron W
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Granville T. WoodsBy Christopher Gregor
  • Granville T. Woods was the creator of many
    inventions but his biggest one was the railway
    telegraph. He also made things like the telephone
    transmitter and the electric egg incubator.

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Herbicides by Joey Simone
  • Herbicides are chemicals added to soil to manage
    weeds.
  • Herbicides can cause food poisoning.

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Income by Allison
  • Is money earned from work.

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Charles F. Kettering
  • Charles Kettering invented the first electric
    cash register, he designed electrical equipment
    for automobiles in Dayton, and he developed the
    first electric automobile starter.
  • By Jordan Miller

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Interval
  • A space between two objects, points, or units.
  • By Jordan Miller

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MarketBy Mariella Stephens
  • A market is a system of businesses around
    the world.

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Leader
  • A leader is a person
  • who leads a group of
  • people. Ex. Presidents,
  • Mayors, Parents,
  • Teachers

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Mining!
By Greg Davidson
  • Mining is the digging up of minerals or other
    materials from the earth. (Coal, Gold, Copper)
    These materials are usually from a coal mine. A
    coal mine is a cave full of valuable materials
    such as coal, gold or copper.

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Agriculture
  • Agriculture means farming fruits vegetables and
    other crops
  • by Danielle Chisling

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Newspaper
  • A newspaper is a print resource that people read
  • By Danielle Chisling

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Opportunity CostBy Vishal Sundaram
  • Opportunity cost is what is given up when making
    a decision.

We had the choice of building the school, the
rec. center, or the mall and I wanted the mall
but that was the opportunity cost! They chose the
Rec. center!
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Pesticide
  • some insect pests can destroy crops of food or
    spread disease. Pesticides are made specifically
    for the purpose of killing these pests.

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By Christian Cooke
Physidal Environment
  • Land

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Atlas By Joey Simone
  • Atlases are books that tell people about the
    world.

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Specialize
  • Specialize means for someone to focus on one main
    thing to sell. Example a pizza place specializes
    in pizza.
  • By Matthew Shafron

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Thomas A. Edison
  • Thomas Edison was born in Milan Ohio. Thomas
    Edison invented the phonograph the motion picture
    camera (video camera). He did not invent the
    light bulb but he improved it. Thomas Edison
    earned more than 1,000 patents.
  • By Ian Golias

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Trade by Tearra
  • Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods and
    services or both. Trade is also called commerce.
    A mechanism that allows trade is called a market.

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VolunteerBriana
  • Volunteer means to help out by maybe help cook
    dinner, help teach a class for a sick teacher or
    even help put out a fire.

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Voting
  • Voting is when you take the opinions of people
    and see which part of the disagreement wins. The
    side of the disagreement that has the most votes
    wins. They do this to chose the president.

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WetlandBriana
  • A wetland is an area of land whose soil is
    saturated with moisture either permanently or
    seasonally. Such areas may also be covered
    partially or completely by shallow pools of water
    Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among
    others. The water found in wetlands can be
    saltwater, freshwater, or brackish.

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Wright Brothers
  • The first Americans to build the
    worlds first airplane.

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Wright Brothers
  • The first Americans to build the worlds first
    airplane
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